alt Hacker NewsNvidia is not the proximate provider of open weight inference. That’s Nvidia’s customers, cloud compute services like AWS. If there was a move to ban open weights models, I am pretty sure these companies would howl much louder to the government than Nvidia, and they’re arguably more influential as a group.
And specialised providers like Baseten, Fireworks, Together… If regulation for the sake of safety was to pass, they wouldn’t be able to serve GLM, Kimi, or Deepseek anymore I wouldn’t underestimate Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s power of nuisance on that regard.